Do you ever get the feeling that when you run into an old classmate, you can't help but to compare their life to yours, when for all intents and purposes it's like comparing apples to oranges?

At a friend's wedding last friday I happened to be sitting with a friend from middle school. She's actually doing quite well in LA doing accounting, having graduated from UC San Diego. I have to admit I do feel a little behind. Why? I dunno. She and I are two totally different people. This is like the time I ended playing football with an old high school teammate. He asked me, "Aren't you a rocket scientist or something now?" But he was serious.

And now I look at myself. I'm 27, working a retail job that utilizes nothing I've learned, getting ready for another 4 semesters of school. I don't feel at all ready to go and 'settle' into a career. I feel that if your chosen profession is something you don't have a passion for, or at the very least have an interest in, then why do it?

Yeah, I hope to one day have a family and a house with 2.4 kids plus 1.2 pets, but I'm not ready. One day I will be.

In this 'choose your own adventure' story that is my life, these choices haven't even come up. But you can bet that when they do, I'll be more than ready to handle them.

Kiss this, NERD!